Ohio St. LB Klein Arrested and Charged With Assault and Domestic Violence
Ohio St. LB Storm Klein has been arrested and charged with assault and domestic violence.
From ESPN:
A man matching the description of Buckeyes linebacker Storm Klein faces one charge of domestic violence and one for assault, according to a Franklin County Municipal Court case summary, perhaps providing new coach Urban Meyer with another early bit of adversity.
According to the court records, a 6-foot-3, 240-pound man with blonde hair named Storm Klein was arrested Friday and is scheduled for arraignment on Saturday morning. Ohio State officials had not confirmed Klein's identity as of late Friday night, but the descriptions in the report match closely with the senior who left spring practice as the backup at middle linebacker.
Klein started 10 games for the Buckeyes last season and posted 45 tackles while also recording an interception, a sack, a forced fumble and a recovery.
But he wasn't able to hold on to a first-team role after the first camp under Meyer, losing his spot to Curtis Grant.
It'll be interesting to see how Meyer handles this situation. Klein has previously been charged with assault, although the charges were dropped. These new charges, alone, are a dismissable offense at every Big Ten university.
Most Ohio St. fans are calling for the dismissal of Klein. I tend to think that Klein will be dismissed as well.
But let's not forget what happened at Florida. Wasn't it something like 41 arrests in 3 years? Well, he's seen 3 arrests just in the past 2 months. The Stoneburner and Mewhort punishments were just for show. This is Meyer's first big test as coach.
Link to court document: http://i.imgur.com/vR43G.png
Eleven Warriors link: http://www.elevenwarriors.com/2012/07/12271/storm-klein-charged-with-assault-domestic-violence#comments
Speaking from the experience of having to deal with 18-23yr old kids coming through basic and IET in the Army along with playing sports through college, there are just times where kids do dumb things regardless of coaching/mentoring/instructions/etc. Providing briefings, training and rules still ends up with times where kids do dumb things.
Having 24/7 news coverage and speculation on how to deal with every kid and the discipline required for those situations is unreasonable and unfair in most cases. Kids will make mistakes, and there are times where you need to cut them breaks and give them chances to learn, grow and succeed....not just kick each and every one to the curb for a mistake or lapse in judgement.
no surprise with this guy
Nothing to see here, folks. This is definitely the other Storm Klein.
Unti they start getting up to Florida's numbers, we should probably not say anything.
Has been dismissed from the team.
“The charges filed against Storm Klein violate the core values of the Ohio State Football Program,” Meyer said in a statement. “As a result, Storm has been removed from the team. It has been made very clear that this type of charge will result in dismissal. If there are any changes in the charges, we will re-evaluate his status.”
http://www.elevenwarriors.com/2012/07/12287/klein-dismissed-from-football-team
He's just kicking him off the team for show.
/s
...if the charges are reduced, or are dismsissed, or Klein goes to trial and gets a verdict of not guilty... then what?
"Suspended, pending resolution of the charges" is how Michigan dealt with Furman, and as near as I can figure out, that is exactly how Coach Meyer is dealing with Klein.